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flintknapper wrote:I'm curious to know just who would want to the be the sacrificial nominee?

Anyone accepting the nomination is sure to be shot down (IF the Senate even agreed to consider confirmation).

I sure as heck wouldn't want to be first in line.

Redneck_Buddha wrote:Obama supposedly considering moderate (read: socially liberal) governor of Nevada, Brian Sandoval.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/obama-vetti ... 8?mod=e2fb

Bitter Clinger wrote:Official cause of death for Antonin Scalia released

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/ ... ased.html/

SewTexas wrote:

WildBill wrote:

SewTexas wrote:

WildBill wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:Obama will not attend Scalia funeral....sends Biden instead: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/o ... ral-219384

Not too surprising. That duty is frequently delegated to the Vice President.

Bush went to and spoke at Renquist's funeral. It's not surprising in that Obama couldn't be bothered to go to his own aunt's funeral.

Very rarely do sitting presidents speak at funerals.
Rehnquist was Chief Justice and had a long time relationship with the Bush family.

I am not trying to defend the actions of our current president, but it is clearly his decision.
I am sure that he realizes the political implications of his decision not to attend the funeral.
He and Justice Scalia were on completely opposite sides of the political spectrum.

I found this link that discusses some previous funerals of supreme court justices:
http://heavy.com/news/2016/02/why-isnt- ... rehnquist/

I completely understand that they were on opposite sides of the spectrum. Here's the thing though. This is a President who now is going to want his nominee to get a hearing. This is a President who as Senator voted to block 4 nominees and is already fussing about the senate possibly blocking his nominee before the Judge is even buried! If he went to the funeral he would be able to say that he was the bigger person, he "was trying to bridge the gap" yada yada yada. 'Course it would also have made him look more presidential if he'd have put on a tie to have his televised words after the Judge passed....
I miss Reagan.

SewTexas wrote:

WildBill wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:Obama will not attend Scalia funeral....sends Biden instead: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/o ... ral-219384

Not too surprising. That duty is frequently delegated to the Vice President.

Bush went to and spoke at Renquist's funeral. It's not surprising in that Obama couldn't be bothered to go to his own aunt's funeral.

The Annoyed Man wrote:Obama will not attend Scalia funeral....sends Biden instead: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/o ... ral-219384

LSUTiger wrote:The CIA Heart Attack Gun apparently really exists. A quick google search pulls up numerous articles about it. If it really works or not using 1975 technology? IDK. But I think if we can fake a moon landing we can perfect technologies to effect hard to detect cause of death by 2016. Technology has gotten better in 41 years I'm sure.

Whether or not a it was used in Scalia's death or even if a conspiracy exist, is up for debate.

People question events and its OK but if infowars comes up with the same questions, suddenly it's not credible?

The idea is simple IMHO, it's possible and it's fishy. The timing is perfect. Too perfect.

parabelum wrote:

JALLEN wrote:I kind of hope that one can rest in peace after passing regardless of what is said about you by the still living.

The only thing worse than irresponsible, ill-informed press speculation is irresponsible, ill-informed press speculation that happens to be accurate.

I wish things were different.

Only 6 days after BO gets defeated on his green gangster push, predominantly by Justice Scalia, the great Justice is found dead with pillow over his head.
This happened on the ranch owned by Poindexter, who is BO award recipient and lifetime Dem Party donor.
U.S. Marshal, appointed by BO, over the phone, informs the judge that no foul play is involved.
How could he tell definitively without an autopsy that no foul play was involved?
Petechial hemorrhaging, while common in strangulation cases, is not always present in suffocating injuries/death.


Given the position of Justice Scalia and the unusual way his body was found, there should have been an order for autopsy issued.

Briefly in my FF/EMT career, I've come across several cases where death was "clearly" caused by MI or CVA, only to find out few days later that death will be investigated as a homicide, due to inconsistent and conflicting material vs. physical evidence.
As someone mentioned earlier, host of events and pharmacological agents can induce a MI, or CVA.

By the way, why did they go with MI at first, out of all things?

I don't get how they could conclude over the phone that absolutely no foul play was involved.
Very unprofessional.


Now we hear hints of Loretta Lynch as a replacement...

Rest in Peace Justice Scalia, you will be missed.

Very very sad to see this.

mojo84 wrote:That's not what has happened in this case. Several hours later they found a JP that didn't see the body and did not indicated any knowledge of Scalia's past medical history or a heart condition that pronounced him dead and declared the cause of death.

I'm not saying there is a great nefarious conspiracy involved here but, to me, this seems much more suspicious than the guy getting shot in Oregon after he illegally occupied a government building for weeks and then refused to stop.

Something isn't right is all I'm saying.

mojo84 wrote:

WildBill wrote:

mojo84 wrote:How can a justice of the peace declare someone dead and determine a cause of death without even seeing the body and then not order an autopsy? Just sounds fishy to me.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html

It sounds like the first JP broke protocol and should have ordered an autopsy.
Justice Scalia was a 79 year old man who died and there is no obvious evidence of foul play.
It is sad that he died, but nothing sounds fishy to me.

Ok. It does to me.

Autopsies aren't just for deaths involving foul play.

mojo84 wrote:How can a justice of the peace declare someone dead and determine a cause of death without even seeing the body and then not order an autopsy? Just sounds fishy to me.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html